Posted on 11/11/2022 2:24:36 PM PST by RummyChick
The Mexican government is using video of homeless people and open-air drug users in Philadelphia's troubled Kensington neighborhood in a national ad campaign to try to scare young people away from drugs.
Jesús Ramírez, the spokesman for Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, proudly presented the ad series Tuesday, saying the campaign 'seeks to inform young people of the damage caused to health by the consumption of chemical drugs.'
Ramírez did not respond to repeated requests for comment as to where the government got the Philadelphia videos or why they used them in ads aimed at a Mexican audience.
The office of Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney acknowledged in a statement the city faces a drug crisis, but added that 'it is always hard to see our city's people and neighborhoods portrayed in a limited and negative light.'
The use of the videos raised questions, in part because Mexico is the source of most of the fentanyl being sold in the United States, where it is fueling a deadly epidemic of overdoses.
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It's a valid point but so many unguarded pharmacies and homes with medicine cabinets around ... they'll make do for a while at least. And if a zombie bit them it would OD so they are basically immune to them. So there's that.
True, they can just switch to benzos and oxy.
It should scare people to stop voting LIBTARD!
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